
Associate Director, Transaction Management Group
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Review and negotiation of transaction banking documentation from an Escrow Agent and Account Bank perspective at the point of onboarding and the duration of the credit.
- Work with deal arrangers, Lender's and internal parties to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new/amended legal transactions.
- Ensuring all operational aspects of the portfolio are managed effectively via creation/amendment of a Deal Summary.
- Coordinate with Cash Ops for static data set up.
- Participation in deal handover meeting with the Cash Ops team.
- Coordinate waiver/amendment requests between Borrowers and Lenders.
- Provide guidance and support to internal and external business partners, as well as the operations team.
- Collaborate with Lender's counsel for onboarding/Event of Default management.
- Manage relationships within the portfolio (Borrower, Lender, internal) to provide an excellent level of client service.
- Take a key role as a senior SME and have the necessary technical skills to deliver a superior service to, and build relationships with, stakeholders; help manage the workflows across the team, providing guidance, sharing knowledge, and mentoring the less experienced members of the team.
- Perform quality assurance on new deal set up and amendments.
- Includes Syndications, Project Finance, Islamic, Transportation.
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Serve as a Director of the Board
- Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)
- Responsibilities of the facility agent, and any legal, regulatory, credit or financial restrictions
- Risks the facility agent is exposed to
- LMA and LSTA Loan documentation
- Common market and business practices
- Commercial aspects of the different types of business
- Roles of other parties to syndicated loan documentation E.g Intercreditor Agent, Security Agent, Account Bank, Collateral Agent
- Debt workout situations
- Industry initiatives and changes
- legal, regulatory, credit or financial restrictions
- Substantial cash, loan agency and/or transaction management experience
- Experience in facility documentation review and negotiation
- Experience in building relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
- Comfort in working independently as well as within a team
- Strong communication, planning and organisational skills
- Excellent and clear communication skills
- Motivated and driven
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.